North Lawndale Crime Map

A public-record total, stated plainly

10,896 is the count of indexed CPD incidents coded to North Lawndale. The West Side community area has been the subject of a great deal of outside commentary. This page adds none of that commentary. It states the open-data total, the city denominator (410,083), and the limits of a police-report file.

Respectful citation means not using 10,896 as a punchline or as proof of a story you already wanted to tell. The number is the size of a public table. Victims and accused persons in those rows are not characters for a narrative on this site.

If you need trends, you still start here: filter the North Lawndale table by date yourself. This packet does not include a year-over-year change, so none is written.

A high or low raw count is not a safety grade. North Lawndale's 10,896 reports describe documentation volume inside an official boundary. Commercial corridors, arterial streets, and housing density can all raise row counts without appearing as separate columns in this packet, so they are not used here as explanations.

When you chart North Lawndale next to another community area, use the same city extract (410,083) and the same unit (incident reports). Mixing arrest counts, shooting dashboards, or 311 noise complaints into the same bar as 10,896 is a category error.

Reports versus the justice-system path

CPD open data stops at the incident record as published. Prosecutors, judges, and juries operate in other systems. The 10,896 North Lawndale rows should never be described as 10,896 crimes proven in court.

Unfounded reports, recodes, and missing clearance fields are normal in municipal extracts. Absence of an arrest on a row is not a finding of innocence or guilt. It is a missing or negative field in a police file.

North Lawndale is about 2.7 percent of indexed city reports. If that share looks small, remember the city file is 410,083 rows; a one-percent slice is still thousands of public records. If it looks large, remember it is still one official community area, not a citywide score.

Questions

How many police reports are in North Lawndale?

LocalCrimeVault indexes 10,896 CPD incident reports for North Lawndale, Chicago, out of 410,083 citywide. That is about 2.7 percent of the published city file. The number counts police reports, not convictions, and it does not include South Lawndale. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. North Lawndale's 10,896 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 2.7 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.

Is North Lawndale the same as South Lawndale in this data?

No. North Lawndale's 10,896 reports are a separate community-area extract. South Lawndale has its own file on this site. Combining them requires an explicit method. This page does not combine them. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. North Lawndale's 10,896 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 2.7 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.

Are these North Lawndale numbers convictions?

No. 10,896 is a CPD open-data incident count. Court findings are not in the Socrata police extract LocalCrimeVault indexes. Quote the figure as report volume only. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. North Lawndale's 10,896 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 2.7 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.

Where is the North Lawndale incident table?

The North Lawndale incident table holds the rows behind 10,896 reports. The name-based URL is an alias. The Chicago crime hub shows the 410,083 citywide total. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. North Lawndale's 10,896 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 2.7 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.